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Weaving With Small Appliances - Book III - The Table Loom
Weaving With Small Appliances - Book III - The Table Loom
Weaving With Small Appliances - Book III - The Table Loom
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WEAVING WITH SMALL APPLIANCES. BOOK III- The Table Loom. Originally published in 1925. The appliances for weaving, and the instructions for using them, which are described in this book are specially designed for and adapted to the use of students. The table-loom has been carefully planned by the author so as to be adapted not only for weaving plain fabrics for domestic use, but to furnish the student of ornamental weaving with a loom on which a great range of designs can be worked out with the least amount of tedious alteration of the mounting and mechanism. A description of the essential parts of the loom, the method of fitting it up, the appliances for preparing the warps as well as entering them in the loom and setting to work, as well as typical designs and specifications are all contained in the chapters of this book. Many of the earliest books on weaving, textiles and needlework, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly ex
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Release dateSep 6, 2016
ISBN9781473351165
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    Weaving With Small Appliances - Book III - The Table Loom - Luther Hooper

    CHAPTER 1

    THE TABLE LOOM

    THE table loom, a drawing of which forms the frontispiece illustration of this, the third part of WEAVING WITH SMALL APPLIANCES, has been carefully planned by the author so as to be adapted not only for weaving plain fabrics for domestic use, where only a small space can be afforded for the process, but, with the addition of certain simple fittings, to furnish the student of ornamental weaving with a loom on which a very great range of designs can be worked out with the least amount of tedious alteration of the mounting and mechanism. This handy loom should also prove useful to the designer, in any weaving workshop, for making samples for approval as well as experiments in new interlacements and combinations of threads, to which the experienced weaver must have realized there is absolutely no limit.

    The simplest form of table loom can be mounted for weaving materials 16, 20, 24, 32, or 40 threads of warp to an inch according to the count of reed made use of. The warp, in this loom, is entered on two headles mounted on rollers which are actuated for opening the shed, through which the shuttle is passed, by a convenient handle placed at the right-hand side of the loom. This handle takes the place of the treadles of the ordinary loom.

    The table loom, for automatic pattern weaving, is mounted with a system of pulleys and cords, the latter terminating in a rack and bead in such a manner that one or more of the headles may be raised at will in the same manner as was possible on the ancient draw loom and its successor the Jacquard weaving appliance. The number of headles on this loom may number 4, 8, 10, 12, 16, or even 20, so that quite extensive designs may be arranged to work out on it, especially when it is entered for compound weaving.

    Each kind of loom is made in two sizes, viz.: to make material up to 18 or 21 inches wide.

    A description of the essential parts of the loom, the method of fitting it up, the appliances for preparing the warps and entering them in the loom and setting to work, as well as typical designs and specifications will all be contained in the following chapters. It will be necessary however, in order to limit this part of the book to its allotted proportion of space, to make the description of the parts of the loom which are common to all looms very brief, in order that the greatest possible number of designs, examples and specifications for plain and ornamental webs may be furnished to the student. It may therefore be necessary for the reader sometimes to refer, for the description and explanation of certain details, to the Author’s former works, Hand-Loom Weaving, Plain and Ornamental, and Weaving for Beginners.¹

    ¹ Weaving for Beginners, 5s., and Hand-Loom Weaving, Plain and Ornamental, 10s. 6d., both published by Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, London.

    CHAPTER II

    THE PARTS OF THE LOOM AND THEIR USES

    AS will be seen in the frontispiece, the framework of the table loom is designed for strength and solidity. These are indispensable qualities in all kinds of looms which have any pretensions to utility. The frame itself consists of four parts, viz.: two ends, each of which is fitted with a roller, one for the front and one for the back of the loom, and two side pieces which are firmly bolted to the ends and have to bear the strain of the warp, which is stretched between them at a great tension, from one roller to the other. The only difference between the front and back ends of the loom frame is in the rollers; that at the front has a ratchet wheel at one end of it having very small teeth, whilst the roller at the opposite end has a ratchet wheel with very large teeth: also that the teeth themselves are placed in opposite directions, so that when

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